For us “sailing rookies” was a historical day today: We participated in a real sailing race which was at the same time our first sailing experience ever! Earlier that day we prepared our sailing boat “Olympia” by putting the sails in the right position. This noon the real sailing begun: […]
Sailing Experiences
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Today our sailing boat “Olympia” returned into the Aegean sea for the first time in 2014! It was dropped into the water at the ship yard, from where we drove carefully around the coast cliffs to the Marina port at Chios City. it took us around two hours to drive […]
The temperature is rising and the clouds said goodbye until October. The only sport that won’t cause overheating now is sailing in the beautiful Aegean sea! But before we can do that, we need to finish the last details on our sailing boat “Olympia”. Therefore we painted the keel with […]
What is always necessary when something was not used for several months? Exactly, it has to be cleaned! This rule also applies to our sailing boat “Olympia”, which is still patiently waiting to be back in the sea. That’s why we armed ourselves with soap, a sponge, a bucket and […]
The summer is about to come and what is better than preparing ourselves and our sailing boat Olympia? We put on our solar cream, sunglasses and old clothes for starting to fix the boat for the sailing season. First we removed the rust of the screw/propeller with sandpaper, that took […]
Last week we used for the first time our great boat Olympia. It was a very sunny and beautiful day and we left all together to the shipyard to see how the boat was carried into the water. Firstly a boat carriage was driven under the boat and later the […]
In the beginning of June, a day after we finally put the boat into the sea and parked it at the harbour, we sailed with “Olympia” the organization´s sailing yacht to the close island Oinousses. It was the first sailing trip this year and furthermore for some of us the […]